Triple
T10539948
| Position | Surface form | Disambiguated ID | Type / Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Subject | Piet Cronjé |
E248668
|
entity |
| Predicate | birthPlace |
P1
|
FINISHED |
| Object | Colesberg district, Cape Colony |
E363366
|
NE FINISHED |
How this triple was built (2 steps)
Every LLM step that produced this triple, in pipeline order — named-entity classification, the disambiguation choices (the exact options shown, with the pick highlighted), and the generated description. The batch + timestamp of each is in the Provenance table below.
NER
Named-entity recognition
gpt-5-mini
Instruction
Given a phrase, classify it is english named entity (e.g., persons, organizations, works of art) in Latin script, or not (e.g., literals, dates, URLs, verbose phrases). For disambiguation, the statement where the phrase occurs as object is also given. Please return a JSON object with `phrase` (string, the phrase being analyzed) and `is_ne` (boolean, indicating whether the phrase is a Named Entity).
Input
Phrase: Colesberg district, Cape Colony | Statement: [Piet Cronjé, birthPlace, Colesberg district, Cape Colony]
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Colesberg district, Cape Colony Context triple: [Piet Cronjé, birthPlace, Colesberg district, Cape Colony]
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A.
eastern frontier of the Cape Colony
The eastern frontier of the Cape Colony was a volatile colonial borderland in southern Africa where Dutch and later British settlers repeatedly clashed with Xhosa communities during the Frontier Wars of the 18th and 19th centuries.
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B.
Riebeek-Wes, Cape Colony
Riebeek-Wes, Cape Colony was a small rural town in the former Cape Colony (now South Africa) known historically as the birthplace of future South African prime minister D. F. Malan.
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C.
Lichtenburg, Transvaal
Lichtenburg, Transvaal was a town in the former Transvaal province of South Africa, historically notable as a rural Boer settlement and later for its role in regional agriculture and diamond discoveries.
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D.
Colesberg
chosen
Colesberg is a small historic town in South Africa’s Northern Cape, known as a key stopover on the N1 highway and a gateway to the semi-arid Karoo region.
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E.
Prince Albert, Cape Colony
Prince Albert, Cape Colony was a small 19th-century town in the former British Cape Colony, known as a rural settlement in what is now South Africa’s Western Cape.
- F. None of above.
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Provenance (3 batches)
The batch behind each pipeline step, in order, with when it ran. Timestamps are batch-level — stages were processed in waves, so the object chain (NER → NED1 → NEDg → NED2) reads in order, but predicate / elicitation batches can sit in a different wave.
| Step | Stage | Batch ID | Status | When |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| creating | Elicitation | batch_69d381c733c08190ab1dd6239f5f34ae |
completed | April 6, 2026, 9:49 a.m. |
| NER | Named-entity recognition | batch_69d50a582be48190856c6f272eea4dcf |
completed | April 7, 2026, 1:44 p.m. |
| NED1 | Entity disambiguation (via context triple) | batch_69d9341d96c08190a6ba644b9acfe2c8 |
completed | April 10, 2026, 5:32 p.m. |
Created at: April 6, 2026, 12:32 p.m.